A spoofing vulnerability exists in the way Windows CryptoAPI (Crypt32.dll) validates Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC) certificates.An attacker could exploit the vulnerability by using a spoofed code-signing certificate to sign a malicious executable, making it appear the file was from a trusted, legitimate source, aka 'Windows CryptoAPI Spoofing Vulnerability'.
CVE-2020-0601
“▲” beside the score: it is higher than NVD's CVSS score.
Score elevated to 9.0 because this CVE is listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog (added 2021-11-03), indicating real-world exploitation has been confirmed by US federal agencies. NVD baseline CVSS 8.1 retained for reference. The 9.0 is the floor for confirmed exploitation, not an impact rating: this CVE's impact severity (EG Severity) is CVSS 8.1 HIGH under GitHub Security Advisory CVSS. Confidence: HIGH.
Also known asEUVD-2020-2099 (ENISA EUVD) · GHSA-82jc-cv6x-r223 (GitHub Security Advisories)Source: ENISA EUVD
- Actively exploited in the wild (CISA-KEV) — the reason this is sooner than the SSVC decision on this page at low or medium mission impact
A fix is available — apply it.
- CVSS v3
- 8.1
- EG Score
- 9.0CRITICALhigh confidence
- EG Risk
- 76EG Risk 76/100
EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score. It fuses impact severity (EG Severity, the CVSS base score, never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score) with real-world exploitation and automatability, under weights EchelonGraph set by hand, so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner.
How it’s computed (value × EchelonGraph’s weight)Severity81% × 45%Impact severity (EG Severity): CVSS 8.1 of 10. Never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score.Exploitation100% × 40%Fixed at 100% for a CISA KEV listing: EchelonGraph's rule.Automatability0% × 15%CISA's SSVC Automatable value: no (Vulnrichment).SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph): Track at low, Attend at medium and Act at high mission impact.Exploitation active (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE.Action: A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines at low, sooner than that at medium and as soon as possible at high mission impact. - EPSS PROB
- 89%
- EPSS %ILE
- 99th
- KEV
- ⚠ Exploited
What the EG score is made of (scorer v4.0: the three questions the 0–10 score mixes, published apart · methodology)
The EG score (9.0): severity, escalated by confirmed exploitation. This CVE's 9.0 is the CISA KEV floor for confirmed exploitation, not an impact rating: its impact severity (EG Severity) is CVSS 8.1 HIGH.
- EG Severity
- 8.1 HIGHCVSS-B, impact only: no KEV listing, EPSS or EG-KEV tier raises it.GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
- EG Likelihood
- 89% within 30 daysSource: FIRST EPSS (model v2026.06.15, score date 2026-10-31). FIRST's exploitation probability, not an EchelonGraph model.
- Confirmed exploitation
- CISA KEV and EG-KEV Tier 1 (exploited in the wild)Reported apart from the likelihood: an observed fact, not a probability.
- EG Priority
- SSVC Attend at medium mission impactTrack at low, Attend at medium and Act at high mission impact.CISA BOD 26-04: 3 days & forensic triage if the affected system is publicly exposed; 14 days if it is not.Each input and its source, and whom BOD 26-04 binds: the SSVC and BOD 26-04 blocks below.
SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph)Track at low, Attend at medium and Act at high mission impact.
A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines at low, sooner than that at medium and as soon as possible at high mission impact.
Exploitation active (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE. Mission impact is CISA's Mission & Well-being decision point, and only you can judge it. CISA's table makes it high when Mission Prevalence is Essential — the vulnerable component "directly provides capabilities that constitute at least one MEF for at least one entity" (MEF: mission essential function) — or when Public Well-Being Impact is Irreversible: "multiple fatalities are likely", the cyber-physical system "is likely lost or destroyed", "extreme or serious externalities" are imposed on other parties, or social systems such as elections or the financial grid "are destabilized and potentially collapse". CISA's decision table
BOD 26-04 (CISA's remediation timeline, Table 1)3 days & forensic triage if the affected system is publicly exposed; 14 days if it is not.
The score's inputs: In CISA KEV yes (CISA's KEV catalog) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). Whether your system is publicly exposed is yours to answer. BOD 26-04 binds US Federal Civilian Executive Branch agencies; for anyone else it is CISA's published timeline, a reference rather than an obligation. The directive · how EchelonGraph applies it
CISA required action“Apply updates per vendor instructions.”
Quoted verbatim from CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. CISA directs it at US federal civilian executive branch agencies under Binding Operational Directive (BOD) 26-04, which replaced BOD 22-01 on 10 June 2026; it is not EchelonGraph's advice. CISA's notes: https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/directives/ed-20-02-mitigate-windows-vulnerabilities-january-2020-patch-tuesday · https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-0601
Published
January 14, 2020
Last Modified
December 18, 2025
Advisory Details (4)
Auto-updated Oct 26, 2026Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog | CISA
Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog | CISA. Listed in CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog.
https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2020-0601Security Update Guide - Microsoft Security Response Center
https://portal.msrc.microsoft.com/en-US/security-guidance/advisory/CVE-2020-0601Vendor Advisories for CVE-2020-0601(1)
These vendors published their own advisory mentioning this CVE — often with vendor-specific remediation steps + affected product lists not in NVD.
Affected Packages
(1 across 1 ecosystem)
Go(1)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fix by version range | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| stdlib | — |
| — |
Weakness Classification(1)
MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.
Data Freshness Timeline
(refreshed 21× in last 7d / 172× in last 30d)
Each row is a time one of our pipelines fetched, updated or re-scored this CVE. For example, "NVD update" means NVD published or revised its analysis for this CVE; "MITRE cvelistV5" means we ingested or refreshed it from the CNA feed. An arrow marks a change the record states ("CVSS v3 → 9.1"); EPSS and GHSA rows show the values recorded at that time, not what changed (EPSS values are rounded; hover one for the exact figures). Most recent first.
Showing the most recent 100 of 1,673 refreshes on record for this CVE.
A repeat, a row identical to one the same pipeline wrote less than 10 seconds earlier, is not a separate refresh and is not counted. None are among the latest 100 rows. The 1,573 oldest rows on record are not shown and were not checked, so the counts can still include repeats.
- 2026-11-01 12:58 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-11-01 12:58 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-11-01 12:58 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-82jc-cv6x-r223 · GitHub severity MODERATE · GitHub CVSS 8.1
- 2026-10-31 16:28 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 89% · 99th percentile
- 2026-10-31 13:14 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-31 13:14 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-10-31 13:14 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-82jc-cv6x-r223 · GitHub CVSS 8.1
- 2026-10-30 13:29 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-30 13:29 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-10-30 13:29 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-82jc-cv6x-r223 · GitHub CVSS 8.1
- 2026-10-29 13:43 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-29 13:43 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-10-29 13:43 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-82jc-cv6x-r223 · GitHub CVSS 8.1
- 2026-10-28 16:27 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 89% · 99th percentile
- 2026-10-28 13:58 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-28 13:58 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-10-28 13:57 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-82jc-cv6x-r223 · GitHub CVSS 8.1
- 2026-10-27 14:13 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-27 14:13 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-82jc-cv6x-r223 · GitHub CVSS 8.1
- 2026-10-26 14:28 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-26 14:28 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-82jc-cv6x-r223 · GitHub CVSS 8.1
- 2026-10-25 16:28 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 89% · 99th percentile
- 2026-10-25 14:43 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-25 14:43 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-10-25 14:43 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-82jc-cv6x-r223 · GitHub CVSS 8.1
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- 2026-10-24 14:58 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-24 14:58 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-10-24 14:58 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-82jc-cv6x-r223 · GitHub CVSS 8.1
- 2026-10-23 15:15 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-23 15:14 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-82jc-cv6x-r223 · GitHub CVSS 8.1
- 2026-10-22 16:28 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 89% · 99th percentile
- 2026-10-22 15:29 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-22 15:29 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-82jc-cv6x-r223 · GitHub CVSS 8.1
- 2026-10-21 15:44 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-21 15:44 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-10-21 15:44 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-82jc-cv6x-r223 · GitHub CVSS 8.1
- 2026-10-20 16:28 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 89% · 99th percentile
- 2026-10-20 15:58 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-20 15:57 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-82jc-cv6x-r223 · GitHub CVSS 8.1
- 2026-10-19 16:12 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-19 16:12 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-10-19 16:12 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-82jc-cv6x-r223 · GitHub CVSS 8.1
- 2026-10-18 16:26 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-10-18 16:26 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-82jc-cv6x-r223 · GitHub CVSS 8.1
- 2026-10-18 07:37 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-18 07:37 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-10-18 07:37 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-82jc-cv6x-r223 · GitHub CVSS 8.1
- 2026-10-17 07:53 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-17 07:53 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-82jc-cv6x-r223 · GitHub CVSS 8.1
- 2026-10-16 08:09 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-16 08:09 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-82jc-cv6x-r223 · GitHub CVSS 8.1
- 2026-10-15 08:24 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-15 08:24 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-82jc-cv6x-r223 · GitHub CVSS 8.1
- 2026-10-14 16:28 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 89% · 99th percentile
- 2026-10-14 08:39 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-14 08:39 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-82jc-cv6x-r223 · GitHub CVSS 8.1
- 2026-10-13 16:28 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 89% · 99th percentile
- 2026-10-13 08:53 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-10-13 08:53 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-82jc-cv6x-r223 · GitHub CVSS 8.1
- 2026-10-12 19:49 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-12 16:29 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 89% · 99th percentile
- 2026-10-12 09:09 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-10-12 09:08 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-82jc-cv6x-r223 · GitHub CVSS 8.1
- 2026-10-12 05:01 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-10-12 05:01 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-82jc-cv6x-r223 · GitHub CVSS 8.1
- 2026-10-12 00:54 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-10-12 00:54 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-82jc-cv6x-r223 · GitHub CVSS 8.1
- 2026-10-11 20:45 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-11 20:45 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-10-11 20:44 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-82jc-cv6x-r223 · GitHub CVSS 8.1
- 2026-10-11 16:35 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-11 16:35 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-10-11 16:35 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-82jc-cv6x-r223 · GitHub CVSS 8.1
- 2026-10-11 13:42 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 89% · 99th percentile
- 2026-10-11 12:27 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-11 12:27 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-10-11 12:27 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-82jc-cv6x-r223 · GitHub CVSS 8.1
- 2026-10-11 08:19 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-10-11 08:19 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-82jc-cv6x-r223 · GitHub CVSS 8.1
- 2026-10-11 04:11 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-10-11 04:11 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-82jc-cv6x-r223 · GitHub CVSS 8.1
- 2026-10-11 00:03 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-10-11 00:02 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-82jc-cv6x-r223 · GitHub CVSS 8.1
- 2026-10-10 19:55 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-10-10 19:55 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-82jc-cv6x-r223 · GitHub CVSS 8.1
- 2026-10-10 15:47 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-82jc-cv6x-r223 · GitHub CVSS 8.1
- 2026-10-10 11:40 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-10-10 11:40 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-82jc-cv6x-r223 · GitHub CVSS 8.1
- 2026-10-10 07:32 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-10-10 07:32 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-82jc-cv6x-r223 · GitHub CVSS 8.1
- 2026-10-10 03:23 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-10-10 03:23 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-82jc-cv6x-r223 · GitHub CVSS 8.1
- 2026-10-09 23:16 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-10-09 23:15 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-82jc-cv6x-r223 · GitHub CVSS 8.1
- 2026-10-09 19:09 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-10-09 19:08 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-82jc-cv6x-r223 · GitHub CVSS 8.1
- 2026-10-09 15:01 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-10-09 15:01 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-82jc-cv6x-r223 · GitHub CVSS 8.1
- 2026-10-09 10:52 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-10-09 10:52 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-82jc-cv6x-r223 · GitHub CVSS 8.1
Publicly available exploits
(11 references, 10 shown)Public exploit code is referenced for this CVE (1 Exploit-DB entry, 9 GitHub PoCs), as is 1 GitHub checker repository. A GitHub repository named or described as a checker or scanner checks whether a system is affected; it is not necessarily exploit code. Defenders should treat patch urgency accordingly.
- GitHub PoCeastmountyxz/CVE-2020-0601-EXPPublished Feb 17, 2020
这资源是作者复现微软签字证书漏洞CVE-2020-0601,结合相关资源及文章实现。推荐大家结合作者博客,理解ECC算法、Windows验证机制,并尝试自己复现可执行文件签名证书和HTTPS劫持的例子。作为网络安全初学者,自己确实很菜,但希望坚持下去,加油!
Open source ↗ - GitHub PoCioncodes/CurveballPublished Jan 28, 2020
PoC for CVE-2020-0601 - CryptoAPI exploit
Open source ↗ - GitHub PoCgentilkiwi/curveballPublished Jan 20, 2020
CVE-2020-0601 #curveball - Alternative Key Calculator
Open source ↗ - GitHub PoCIIICTECH/-CVE-2020-0601-ECC---EXPLOITPublished Jan 19, 2020
CurveBall (CVE-2020-0601) - PoC CVE-2020-0601, or commonly referred to as CurveBall, is a vulnerability in which the signature of certificates using elliptic curve cryptography (ECC) is not correctly verified. Attackers can supply hand-rolled generators, bypassing validation, antivirus & all non-protections.
Open source ↗ - GitHub PoCRrUZi/Awesome-CVE-2020-0601Published Jan 16, 2020
😂An awesome curated list of repos for CVE-2020-0601.
Open source ↗ - GitHub PoCsaleemrashid/badecparamsPublished Jan 16, 2020
Proof of Concept for CVE-2020-0601
Open source ↗ - Exploit-DBEDB-47933Published Jan 15, 2020
Microsoft Windows - CryptoAPI (Crypt32.dll) Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC) Spoof Code-Signing Certificate
Open source ↗ - GitHub checker0xxon/cve-2020-0601Published Jan 15, 2020
Zeek package to detect CVE-2020-0601
Open source ↗ - GitHub PoC0xxon/cve-2020-0601-pluginPublished Jan 15, 2020
Zeek package that uses OpenSSL to detect CVE-2020-0601 exploit attempts
Open source ↗ - GitHub PoCkudelskisecurity/chainoffoolsPublished Jan 15, 2020
A PoC for CVE-2020-0601
Open source ↗
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